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• On Israel and Gaza—Susie Linfield and David Stromberg • Regina Janes on Hilary Mantel • Elizabeth Benedict on James Salter and Jewishness • Steve Stern: Again with Kafka • Phillip Lopate—Coming of Age in the Open Classroom • A Story by Joyce Carol Oates • Art: Donald Judd & Manet/Degas • Jay Rogoff on Balanchine • Jeffrey Meyers: Wounded Spirits of WWI • Poems by Mazur, Shapiro, Logan and others & More ON THE COVER: Hans Bellmer “The Doll (Face and Knife),” 1935

Googlegangers & Flaccid Designators

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Kalim Mansour

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Ferocious Entertainment:

Lionel Shriver

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Notes on Monogamy

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The Home Key #6:

Get Back

If You Would Let Me

Three Books, Two Hats, and an Essay Survival Plan

Roth and the Biographers

Invisible Ink: A Mystery

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Memorial to Venus

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

Nabokov and Balthus:

The Erotic Imagination

Salmagundi 214-215, Spring - Summer 2022

On Learning How To Act:

A Reply to Adam Phillips & The Pleasures of Censorship

Mummy

Disenchantment and Dogma

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022

Beauty in Struggle:

On Jacob Lawrence

The Future of a Bronze Age Religion

Salmagundi 212 - 213, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022